George Waldemar Skellerup was born in Cobden, Victoria, Australia in 1881, the youngest son of Danish and Welsh parents.He landed in New Zealand at the age of 21 with 35 shillings in his pocket.
After working for Dunlop for a number of years, he started the Para Rubber Company in Christchurch in 1910. Skellerup’s footwear business formed in 1939. During the Second World War years chemicals for industrial processing were in short supply.
Establishing A Salt Industry
George …